Deterring Gang-Involved Gun Violence: Measuring the Impact of Boston’s Operation Ceasefire on Street Gang Behavior

Objectives The relatively weak quasi-experimental evaluation design of the original Boston Operation Ceasefire left some uncertainty about the size of the program’s effect on Boston gang violence in the 1990s and did not provide any direct evidence that Boston gangs subjected to the Ceasefire interv...

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Main Author: Braga, Anthony A. (Author)
Contributors: Hureau, David M. ; Papachristos, Andrew V.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2014, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 113-139
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